This bright, appealing grammar worksheet is an excellent way to practise and revise using noun prefixes in Year 3. It is divided into five sections: understand, challenge, test, explain and apply.
Activities include SATs style questions and opportunities for creative writing responses, with eye-catching images as prompts.
This primary resource is divided into five sections:
- Understand
Use a dictionary to help you add one of the prefixes given to the words below them. Then explain what each new word means
- Challenge
Look at the pictures provided as well as the prefix clues. What are they showing? Write a sentence about each picture, making sure to include the prefix word
- Test
Match prefixes to their meaning, then add prefixes to the words in bold in the example sentences
- Explain
In your own words explain the difference between a market and a supermarket, and a national and international airport
- Apply
Polly is about to go on a journey. Write a passage explaining where she will go and what she will see. Use 3 prefixes in your writing to show that you know how they work.
What is a prefix?
A prefix is a combination of letters, words or numbers that can be placed before other words to change their meaning.
Prefix examples
- un- (unpleasant, unhappy)
- im- (impossible, improper)
- mis- (mislead, misplace)
- re- (reappear, reattach)
- pre- (prefix, prehistoric)
- dis- (disagree, disobey)
What is a noun prefix?
A noun prefix is where a prefix is added to a word, and the resulting word is a noun, for example adding mis- to ‘information’ gives you ‘misinformation’, which is a noun.
Noun prefix list
- Anticlimax
- Autobiography
- Bicycle
- Co-founder
- Cooperation
- Counterpoint
- Ex-husband
- Disinterest
- Disobedience
- Disorder
- Incoherence
- Interaction
- Kilogram
- Malfunction
- Mistreatment
- Neo-colonialism
- Nonfiction
- Outbuilding
- Overtime
- Postgraduate
- Pseudoscience
- Refurbishment
- Semicircle
- Submarine
- Superpower
- Ultrasound
- Unemployment
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Pupils should be taught to add prefixes and suffixes.